Person · Notable civilian

Sauro

A young soldier — Italian father, German mother — behind the October 1943 delayed-mine hoax that emptied Naples.

In the book

Sent to decide whether he should be shot as a spy, Lewis finds not a ‘gigantic pale-eyed Teuton’ but a small, hungry boy, and reports him mentally unbalanced to save his life.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. October 24 1943
    Lewis is sent to investigate whether the German soldier behind the mine hoax should be executed as a spy.

    young Italian-German soldier behind the mine hoax; Lewis reports him mentally unbalanced to spare him execution

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